The theme of this years Solidarity Sunday is "Take my picture. Show my face. Tell everyone Im still here." It is an especially poignant message as the emigration numbers continue to decline and the Jews still trapped in the Soviet Union must begin to feel like the forgotten people. By all reliable accounts. there are still more than 21/2 million Soviet Jews. many of whom have waited for over a decade to emigrate. According to the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. the number of Jews allowed to emigrate in April was 74. bringing the total for 1984 to a pitiful 303. Those who remain are faced with new laws each day. each one more repressive. The latest law states that. as of February 1984. a person who receives material valuables from a foreign source is subject to arrest for antiSoviet agitation and propaganda.
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